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Governidiot Cuomo bends over for Hollywood
Cuomo Announces Plans To Modify Gun Control Law To Exempt Film Industry
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Just a month after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the strictest gun control law in the country, state officials plan to make some exemptions.
The law toughened restrictions on military-style rifles and high-capacity semiautomatic handguns, but those restrictions will be changed so those types of weapons can be used on the sets of television shows and movies being shot in New York.
“We spend a lot of money in the state bringing movie production here, post production here. So obviously we would want to facilitate that,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo said the prop firearms used in films would probably not be classified as an assault weapon.
“But people want certainty and there’s no reason not to make a change like that,” the governor added. “Apparently, they have blanks or they have phony magazines or something.”
Cuomo and lawmakers announced on Wednesday that they’ll also fix an error that made its way into the law.
The measure passed so quickly that as it reads now, police officers carrying high-capacity magazines could be in violation of the law, Diamond reported.
The need for a “clean-up” bill means the fight over the law may not be over after all.
An estimated 10,000 opponents of the new restrictions will descend on Albany Thursday as legislators consider additional amendments
Jerry Manderin
February 28th, 2013
You get what you deserve New York.
Except Big Fur Hat and all the like-minded people who reside there.
thirdtwin
February 28th, 2013
Hey Guv, why don’t you create the David Gregory Loophole, so that MSM idiots can brandish illegal weapons on local TV news?
Czar of Defenestration
February 28th, 2013
@ FUR:
Wanna make a *billion* bucks overnight?
Copyright “Stage Prop COLA” and sell it in NYC.
kono
February 28th, 2013
What? The left selling out their “morals” for money?!? Hard to believe.
hanoverfist
February 28th, 2013
The new New York Motto:
“Welcome to New York
Do as we say,not as we do.”
Lowell
February 28th, 2013
“Apparently, they have blanks or they have phony magazines or something.”
Once again, we see a political idiot exposing himself as a know nothing, non wonder dog.
Why aren’t these people drowned in the interest of the public good?
McFartus Spontaneous
February 28th, 2013
Why dont they just move Albany to Manhattan and be done with it??
eternal cracker p
February 28th, 2013
All this says is everyone in NY is mentally ill except for the film industry.
J Frank Parnell
February 28th, 2013
Never thought I would see another human (I use that term reluctantly as taxonomic, not descriptive) more vile, disgusting and repugnant than Chuck Schumer. Andrew Huomo so contaminates the very soil of New York it’s now Chernobyl; beyond remediation. It is officially Quarantined Arachnid Zone.
I no longer do any type of business with NY. No investments, no consumer products, no firearms. Nothing.
PAvolley
February 28th, 2013
So they are all but admitting that bad guys will still be able to get the bad looking “Assualt” guns to run around New York with?
Tim
February 28th, 2013
So, I guess you can’t use the words ‘principled’ or ‘integrity’ with ‘Cuomo?’
MNHawk
February 28th, 2013
The need for a “clean-up” bill means the typical New York voters is a dumbass, electing dumbass’ that can’t even read what they vote for.
Fixed for reality.
Uncle Dirt
February 28th, 2013
Smacks of Animal Farm. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”…. More progtard BS.
southernsue
February 28th, 2013
i cuomo’s body guards have guns?
oops! he is more important, i see, thanks!
Blink
February 28th, 2013
For consistency instead of an exemption to their ridiculous law they ought to require all firearms be Photoshopped into the movie and tv shows being filmed there.
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 28th, 2013
Czar, that is an excellent idea!
32 oz “prop” drinks. love it. lol